From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: r8723au: Fix build warnings Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 09:37:35 -0700 Message-ID: <20140409163735.GC16346@kroah.com> References: <1397055920-11654-1-git-send-email-Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kbuild-all@01.org, Jes Sorensen To: Larry Finger Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1397055920-11654-1-git-send-email-Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: driverdev-devel-bounces@linuxdriverproject.org Sender: driverdev-devel-bounces@linuxdriverproject.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 10:05:20AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > The kbuild test robot reports the following: > > tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master > head: 75ff24fa52f0cc512ceee4c377632b91a3a80811 > commit: 9176303c404741b2f96796466437f2badf6e289b staging: r8723au: Turn on build of new driver > date: 4 days ago > config: make ARCH=avr32 allyesconfig > > All warnings: > > >> drivers/staging/rtl8723au/include/rtw_mlme.h:620: warning: 'rtw_set_roaming' declared inline after being called > drivers/staging/rtl8723au/include/rtw_mlme.h:620: warning: previous declaration of 'rtw_set_roaming' was here > >> drivers/staging/rtl8723au/include/rtw_mlme.h:621: warning: 'rtw_to_roaming' declared inline after being called > drivers/staging/rtl8723au/include/rtw_mlme.h:621: warning: previous declaration of 'rtw_to_roaming' was here > -- > drivers/staging/rtl8723au/hal/rtl8723a_hal_init.c: In function 'Hal_EEValueCheck': > >> drivers/staging/rtl8723au/hal/rtl8723a_hal_init.c:2277: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type > > The first two warnings are fixed by making the two prototypes be "inline" to match > the actual routine. The third warning comes from testing that a u8 quantity is positive. If the functions are inline, why are they referenced in a .h file at all?